Abstract
In recent years, service oriented architecture (SOA) has been increasingly adopted to develop distributed applications in the context of the Internet. To develop reliable SOA-based applications, an important issue is how to ensure the quality of web services. In this article, we propose a dynamic random testing (DRT) technique for web services, which is an improvement over the widely-practiced random testing (RT) and partition testing (PT) approaches. We examine key issues when adapting DRT to the context of SOA, including a framework, guidelines for parameter settings, and a prototype for such an adaptation. Empirical studies are reported where DRT is used to test three real-life web services, and mutation analysis is employed to measure the effectiveness. Our experimental results show that, compared with the three baseline techniques, RT, Adaptive Testing (AT) and Random Partition Testing (RPT), DRT demonstrates higher fault-detection effectiveness with a lower test case selection overhead. Furthermore, the theoretical guidelines of parameter setting for DRT are confirmed to be effective. The proposed DRT and the prototype provide an effective and efficient approach for testing web services.
Highlights
We present some of the underlying concepts for dynamic random testing (DRT), and web services.2.1 Dynamic Random Testing (DRT)DRT combines RT and partition testing (PT), with the goal of benefitting from the advantages of both
Because our technique is based on PT, it is necessary that the partition details be provided, which can be done through analysis of the input parameters and their constraints, as described in the specification of the web service under test
To address the challenges of testing service oriented architecture (SOA)-based applications, we have presented a dynamic random testing (DRT) method for web services
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C., Dai, H., Wang, G., (...), Chen, T.Y., Cai, K.
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